There is a number of accomplished african americans famous for their work. Here are some of them.
| List of Famous African Americans |
|---|
| Claude E. Brown |
| Corey Montrel Myers (1990- ) |
| W. E. B. Du Bois |
| Henry Louis Gates, Jr. |
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| Joseph Jarman |
| Elizabeth Keckley |
| Thomas Sowell |
| Beverly Daniel Tatum |
| Cornel West |
| Maya Angelou |
| M.K. Asante, Jr |
| Toni Cade Bambara |
| Leslie Esdaile Banks |
| Amiri Baraka |
| Steven Barnes |
| Paul Beatty |
| Derrick Bell |
| Lerone Bennett, Jr. |
| Bertice Berry |
| Eleanor Taylor Bland |
| Kole Black |
| Marita Bonner |
| Darnishia Bolden |
| Arna Bontemps |
| David Bradley (novelist) |
| Gwendolyn Brooks |
| Hallie Quinn Brown |
| William Wells Brown |
| Ed Bullins |
| Anita Richmond Bunkley |
| Olivia Ward Bush |
| Bebe Moore Campbell |
| Stokely Carmichael |
| Stephen L. Carter |
| Cyrus Cassells |
| Christopher Chambers |
| Troy CLE |
| Pearl Cleage |
| Eldridge Cleaver |
| Michelle Cliff |
| Lucille Clifton |
| Wanda Coleman |
| Marvel Cooke |
| Anna J. Cooper |
| J. California Cooper |
| Jayne Cortez |
| Bill Cosby |
| Stanley Crouch |
| Countee Cullen |
| Christopher Paul Curtis |
| Jeffrey Daniels |
| Edwidge Danticat |
| Angela Davis |
| Frank Marshall Davis |
| Lucy Delaney |
| Sarah L. Delany |
| Anderson Denner |
| Eric Jerome Dickey |
| Anita Doreen Diggs |
| Lonnie Dixon |
| Frederick Douglass |
| Rita Dove |
| W. E. B. Du Bois |
| Alice Dunbar-Nelson |
| David Anthony Durham |
| Michael Eric Dyson |
| Ralph Ellison |
| Olaudah Equiano |
| Mari Evans |
| Percival Everett |
| Stephanie Dawkins |
| Jessie Fauset |
| Antwone Fisher |
| Rudolph Fisher |
| Sharon G. Flake |
| Leon Forrest |
| Marcus Garvey |
| Henry Louis Gates, Jr. |
| Addison Gayle |
| Nikki Giovanni |
| Donald Goines |
| Lawrence Otis Graham |
| Dick Gregory |
| Sutton E. Griggs |
| Terris McMahan Grimes |
| Angelina Weld Grimke |
| Charlotte Forten Grimké |
| Sojourner Marable Grimmett |
| Dick GlenRock |
| Paige Glowacki |
| Patrick Gonzales |
| Alex Haley |
| Virginia Hamilton |
| Henry Hampton |
| Lorraine Hansberry |
| Vincent Harding |
| Frances Harper |
| E. Lynn Harris |
| Robert Hayden |
| Chester Himes |
| Hugh Holton |
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| Pauline Hopkins |
| George Moses Horton |
| Detrick Hughes |
| Zora Neale Hurston |
| R Caresse Hightower |
| Brenda Jackson |
| Harriet Jacobs |
| T.D. Jakes |
| Beverly Jenkins |
| C.L. Johnson |
| Georgia Douglas Johnson |
| Helene Johnson |
| Charles R. Johnson |
| James Weldon Johnson |
| Mat Johnson |
| Edward P. Jones |
| Tayari Jones |
| June Jordan |
| Ron Karenga |
| Elizabeth Keckley |
| Randall Kenan |
| John Oliver Killens |
| Jamaica Kincaid |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| Etheridge Knight |
| Yusef Komunyakaa |
| Victor LaValle |
| Alain Locke |
| Glenville Lovell |
| Nathaniel Mackey |
| Haki R. Madhubuti |
| Manning Marable |
| Paule Marshall |
| Hans Massaquoi |
| Brandon Massey |
| Nathan McCall |
| Claude McKay |
| Terry McMillan |
| James Alan McPherson |
| Oscar Micheaux |
| Penny Mickelbury |
| E. Ethelbert Miller |
| Anne Moody |
| Mary Monroe |
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